Looking at the ancient religious documents I can make some connections to what is going on in the novel in appreciation of the divine. Fanny has the ability to detach herself form the immediate company and look out the window and in “star gazing” find the purpose of human condition. Reading the history of religion we can see how the original creation of chaos as the point of deterioration of morals. Religion for the ones dedicated to it would be a point of illusive creation that is rooted in “religion as poetry” in a creative sense. The religious person after being dedicated to intellectual thought, must be “sympathetic in the spirit of kindness and tolerance.” Within that definition I can see fanny as a spiritual person, one who has sympathy for everyone around her, and is also capable of tolerating actions that she does not find morally in alignment with high spirited lives.
The first almost four hundred years after Christianity, Rome was “a city filled with Gods.” This is an important statement to be made in order for us to see that it took an amalgamation of many pagan and Christina ides in order to organize a single belief in one god. We are told that “the ideal scholar in religion must understand the religion of the time if he is to be able to appreciate religion in general, and especially that of antiquity. He must be able to lift himself out of his own mental habit and to accommodate himself in imagination to the environment both physical and intellectual of another tie and people.” What a wonderful of describing how one reaches spirituality of a moment of prayer. The article continues to describe that a “single religion adorability of the cosmic bodies and the elements: the universal reign of one eternal and omnipotent God.” Is it safe to say then that Fanny hold s the key to a connection between the cosmic world and the intellectual world?
The moment Fanny looks out the window, “here is harmony! Here is repose! Here’s what may have all paintings and all music behind, and what poetry only attempt to describe! Here’s what may tranquilize every care, and lift the heart to rapture! When I look out on such a night like this, if eel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world…” (135). This description relates to the intellectual understanding of the universe in theological aspects of studying religion. Fanny seems to praise the art of poetry as the bible in antiquity says “religion is poetry” and synthesizes for herself the existence of the universe in one harmonious God.
In comparing Heman’s poem, “The Wife of Asdrubal” we can see religion as a force to be manipulated. Hemans compares the death of young children to the begging of a coward who lost the war, and creates a heroin who stabs him with her dagger. Ironically, while killing him she offers him a relief from shame and also shows the others that pride cannot be undermined. “The Roman’s triumph not to grace, but shame.” The woman becomes the heroine because not only she acts in justice she also intellectualizes the position of a winner without grace and one with grace, by murder. Martyrdom is shared by murder and earned by a divinity in death.
Looking at the ancient religious documents I can make some connections to what is going on in the novel in appreciation of the divine. Fanny has the ability to detach herself form the immediate company and look out the window and in “star gazing” find the purpose of human condition. Reading the history of religion we can see how the original creation of chaos as the point of deterioration of morals. Religion for the ones dedicated to it would be a point of illusive creation that is rooted in “religion as poetry” in a creative sense. The religious person after being dedicated to intellectual thought, must be “sympathetic in the spirit of kindness and tolerance.” Within that definition I can see fanny as a spiritual person, one who has sympathy for everyone around her, and is also capable of tolerating actions that she does not find morally in alignment with high spirited lives.
The first almost four hundred years after Christianity, Rome was “a city filled with Gods.” This is an important statement to be made in order for us to see that it took an amalgamation of many pagan and Christina ides in order to organize a single belief in one god. We are told that “the ideal scholar in religion must understand the religion of the time if he is to be able to appreciate religion in general, and especially that of antiquity. He must be able to lift himself out of his own mental habit and to accommodate himself in imagination to the environment both physical and intellectual of another tie and people.” What a wonderful of describing how one reaches spirituality of a moment of prayer. The article continues to describe that a “single religion adorability of the cosmic bodies and the elements: the universal reign of one eternal and omnipotent God.” Is it safe to say then that Fanny hold s the key to a connection between the cosmic world and the intellectual world?
The moment Fanny looks out the window, “here is harmony! Here is repose! Here’s what may have all paintings and all music behind, and what poetry only attempt to describe! Here’s what may tranquilize every care, and lift the heart to rapture! When I look out on such a night like this, if eel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world…” (135). This description relates to the intellectual understanding of the universe in theological aspects of studying religion. Fanny seems to praise the art of poetry as the bible in antiquity says “religion is poetry” and synthesizes for herself the existence of the universe in one harmonious God.
In comparing Heman’s poem, “The Wife of Asdrubal” we can see religion as a force to be manipulated. Hemans compares the death of young children to the begging of a coward who lost the war, and creates a heroin who stabs him with her dagger. Ironically, while killing him she offers him a relief from shame and also shows the others that pride cannot be undermined. “The Roman’s triumph not to grace, but shame.” The woman becomes the heroine because not only she acts in justice she also intellectualizes the position of a winner without grace and one with grace, by murder. Martyrdom is shared by murder and earned by a divinity in death.